Overview
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive managed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It serves as a repository for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles, spanning centuries of scientific research. The architecture is designed for long-term preservation and accessibility, offering tools for bulk download and text mining, catering to researchers and developers. PMC supports open access initiatives, enabling compliance with funder mandates and expanding the reach of scientific findings. Its value proposition lies in providing a centralized, freely accessible resource that promotes knowledge dissemination and facilitates data analysis through programmatic access. Use cases include researchers mining data for meta-analyses, institutions archiving their publications, and developers building tools for literature analysis.